The ORA Navigator is a specialized tool designed to provide you with quick and reliable answers to questions you may have while navigating University of Maine’s Office of Research Administration website.
Important notes regarding ORA Navigator include:
Unlike general AI models such as Gemini or ChatGPT, ORA Navigator is not designed to be a conversational chatbot. Instead, it functions as a powerful semantic search-based information-retrieval (IR)tool that draws its answers exclusively from a curated knowledgebase of frequently asked questions (hence, why it also referred to as an “FAQBot”).
The knowledgebase that ORA Navigator references is internally developed, vetted, and regularly updated by ORA staff to ensure every answer is accurate and trustworthy, effectively preventing the tool from generating false information or “hallucinating.”
If the ORA Navigator cannot find a precise answer from its knowledgebase, it will direct you to contact office staff for assistance. It is important to remember that ORA Navigator is not designed to handle project-specific questions, but more universally applicable questions.
As ORA staff continue to add to its internal knowledgebase, the ORA Navigator will become an even more robust resource for the University of Maine’s research community. If you have any immediate feedback you would like to submit for the ORA Navigator, please use the ORA Navigator Feedback Form to help improve overall user experience.
